aide
UK/eɪd/
aide noun: an assistant.
Noun
aide (plural aides)
- An assistant.
- The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126
- Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2021
- An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
aide meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Pashto
aide in Tamil
- உதவி
aide in Urdu
- ماتحت, نائب
aide in Malayalam
- helper, assistant, adviser
- സഹായി, സഹായകോദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ, കയ്യാൾ, ഉപദേശകൻ, മന്താവ്, ഉത്തരസാധകൻ
aide in Pashto
- aide
- مرستونی mrastunay
Examples of aide in a sentence
- The corruption charges against her aides have her on the run.
- One of the President's aides gave us a ten-minute backgrounder on the dairy industry before the meeting.
- Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.
Forms of aide
| plural | aides |
|---|---|
| alternative form | aid |
Origin of aide
Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.
Words formed from aide
Words that rhyme with aide
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about aide
- What does aide mean?
- Aide means an assistant.
- What is aide in Tamil?
- Aide in Tamil is உதவி. See Aide meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is aide?
- Aide is a noun.
- How do you pronounce aide?
- Aide is pronounced /eɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of aide?
- The plural of aide is aides.
Words near aide in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aide (page history and authors); aide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aide (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aide (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); مرستونی (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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